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Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, But that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil. Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous failing of the just, The one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogatives of virtue; But hatred is a slow continuing crime, a fire in the bad man’s breast, A dull and hungry flame, for ever craving insatiate. Hatred would harm another; anger would indulge itself; Hatred is a simmering poison; anger, the opening of the valve; Hatred destroyeth as the upas-tree; anger smiteth as a staff; Hatred is the atmosphere of hell, but anger is known in heaven.
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, But that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil. Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous failing of the just, The one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogatives of virtue; But hatred is a slow continuing crime, a fire in the bad man’s breast, A dull and hungry flame, for ever craving insatiate. Hatred would harm another; anger would indulge itself; Hatred is a simmering poison; anger, the opening of the valve; Hatred destroyeth as the upas-tree; anger smiteth as a staff; Hatred is the atmosphere of hell, but anger is known in heaven.
Approximate author period: c. 1849 AD · industrial
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- Martin F. Tupper
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- Approximate author period: c. 1849 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 280 · printed citation: Martin F. Tupper · subject: HATRED
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